St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-04

the poorest and humblest of them-and we
must labor to execute their wishes as we I'M
uerstood them on election day. We must try
10 De as earnest as they are. A great city
mas It's seductions and bewiiderments, and a
rev weeks sometimes creates gulf between
the Weak-minded representative and those
VINO elected him. And when a nabob takes
MIN by the arm he forgets the scattered ham
lets and feels that he is nabob himself.
we must not underrate the task before us,
IL is gigantic one. Legislature after legis-
azure mas met the enemy and gone home
beaten and batfied. And as each new tempest
OF public opinion sends its breakers roaring
INTO these halls, it was only 10 waste away in
IRON ana foam upon the solid shores of COR
ruptIon and cunning. This nation has moth
ing to fear from foreign invasion or domestic
lnsurrection, but its government threatens 10
rail- a prey to universal moral rottenness.
Inc very fountain, the people itself, is be-
coming corrupted. If it was possible to i'm
press one thought more deeply than all 9TH
ers, on the mind of the people, it would be
TINS: That the man who sells his vote, or his
constituents, is
THE W Est ENEMY THE REPUBLIC HAS.
He brings disrepute and distrust op self
government, and does all that is in him to set
pack civilization itself: for when liberty falls
tne world fallS and inexpreSSble misery must
be inflicted on mankind for untold generations.
we all know that our elections have become
vi late salurnallas OF corruption and orgies
OF drunk ennesS. And the man who sells
others sells himself; and when he would
wreck others he wrecks himself. Ali over
TINS great a ion you will find these stranded
disasters, cast away upon the shores of pub
lie contempt Once they walked erect the
nope and admiration Of their fellow men; but
the subtle saducer touched them with his
wa I'd of twisted serpeDts, and they collapsed
aud fell by the roadside, the ro ten corpses of
nler, filling the air with the stencil of their
dlslntegration. Stand firm, my friends
There is something more of life than to live
we must work to9s .er to abolish that state
or things where cunning impoverishes in
uuStry and then employs part of the piunder
10 corrupt the poverty-stricken representa-
tlves of the people. He who defeats the Just
hopes OF great community prepares the way
Tor anarchy. When the courts fail the mob
rises; when the legislatures fall, the day OF
the commune is at hand. We shall be asked
HOW far can we reasonably go in matters of
LEGISLATION! Our answer is, as far as the
platforms OF the two great political parties,
ADOPTED few months ago, lead US. They
surely are safe guide. Every man holding
Il seat in the house or senate was elected on
one or the other of these platforms. Every
voter voted for one or the other OF them. No
protest came up against either. No man
could have been elected to seat here who
had declared himself against the principles
enumerated in those platforms touching the
grievances of the people. And there is sub
stantlai unanimty between the platforms
what Republican will now dare to turn his
Dack Oh the promises of his party? What
democrat will repudiate the pledges oil his
organization? Who is it that now with wink
| or leer, or tongue in cheek, will tell you that
THOSE PLEDGES AMOUNT TO NOTHING;
that they were meant for t'taffy;" that they
were an intentional swindle on 24O, 900 voters?
| What do those platforms unite in demanding?
Simply-justice and fair play-for the farmer
the workIngmen-for all men. That the
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greater, by law, for one man than another:
! that one locality shall not, by law be robbed
| to enrich another; that one man shall not
pay double taxes on his lands that another
may escape; that the burdens and benefits of
government shall be shared equally by all:
that one mans dollar shall not bear little or
no interest. while another man collects heavy
| interest on dollars that never existed; in short,
| that the rights of property shall never rise
! superior to the rights of mankind. We shall
ask, in pursuance OF those platforms, that one
man shall not work for another to steal; that
| rings shall not be formed to mcnopolize our
| markets and deprive the producer of the
| fruits of his own industry. 1t was settled in
| the great ant-slavery contest that one indi-
| vidual could not be safely left to the unlim-
| tied control OF another. If few men are
allowed to determine the degree of the farm
ers' prosperity, by determining how much
| they are to take from him, and how much
| they are to leave him, it is but another form
| of serfdom. The essence of slavery is the
| robbery of the fruits of labor. All slaves are
| not sold on the auction block. The negro
! dancing his animal dances in the cane brakes
was cheerful picture compared with thou
| sands of homes in this great land. where in
! telligent, Christian white people, sit to-day
eating the bread of bitter poverty, and gnaw-
ing their hearts in sorrow, conscious that
! others are
R1orING ON THE FRUITS OF THEIR TOLL.
The great anti-slavery contest has passed
| into history: it is seen through the heroic
mist of time. Around the fact of emanci-
patton clusters these noble colo ;si, Lincoln
| Chase, Seward and Greedy, to-day houored
and glorite6 by all men, But we can remem-
Der the dark and stormy days of misrepre-
| sentatiou, detraction, SANDER and hatred in
which they lived and labored. But they
| fought against wrong beyond a geograph-
| zeal, sectional line. We are warning aga INST
an injustice right in our own midst, whose
| roots penetrate into every part of the body
! polite, Let us strive to do our duty in our
| day and generation, as they did in theirs.
! 1t may be that can do but little at this
| meeting to-day. We can at least appoint a
| committee to represent US. and we can thus
| provide for future meetings. We can also dis
| cuss the organization of the house. That is
a subject of the utmost importance. And we
can become acquainted with each other. 1t
| is probable that We may, as farmers be called
| upon to cooperate with those members and
|
| represent the great labor element. 1t has
| been too long speeches.. 1t is beginning to
! ind voice. That voice may fill the world.
| l need not urge upon farmers the propriety
and justice eff cooperating with them. l can
! conceive of no demand they Can make incon-
| sstent with the interests of the agricultural
| class. They are our producers. We are the
| two mighty wings of civilization. Our enc
| mics are almost Identical. In the swarming
workshops we ffnd the market for our pro-
| n i'm toll G,,1
destination of their wares. Interest, human
| ity, justice,
LINK US INDISSOLUBLY TOGETHER.
If they are down in the scale the more rea-
| son why we should try to lift them I'D. If
they are oppressed the more cause why we
| should defend them. 1t is to the great honor
| of the English aristocracy that they have lib
eraliZed their government with eyerp step of
| advance taken by the common people. In
| our own country civilization must move for
ward along the lines of justice, or the whole
development Of the human race must be ar
rested. There is no danger to society or
order so long as Intelligence opens the path
way of opportunity for poverty The stream
| of progress fOamS and thunders into cata-
racts Of revolution only when the craft and
| seltshness of man erect barriers to arrest its
waters. 1t is Intelligence that has brought
us up from savagery. 1t is Intelligence, con-
Joined with the sentiment of Justice and
brotherly love. that must guide US through
the perilS that now menace the world. Re
form must come either from above or below
If it comes from above, its work will be sighted
BY the peaceful beac MS of education and re-
liglon. 1t il comes from below, the glare of
the incendiary's torch will blaze red and ap-
palling amid the crash of falling Institutions
We have got sixty days-siXty days out of
two years!-in which TO do good. DO not let
yourselves be turned aside by the scrambles
of politics, but go steadily on to your work
Whatever is worth doing is worth doing your